Door fastening



Sept. 9

H. F. DIESEL DOOR FASTENING Filed nec. s1, 1923 MMI-'P f Cil Patented Sept. 9, 1924.

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WAEEf Application me@ December 3i, 1.323. serial no, 683,654.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY F. DIESEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State 0f Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to door fastenings and the like and is particularly adapted to be used on the doors of railway cars particularly such as close the state rooms of cars used in transporting live poultry.

The tender who occupies the state room often finds it desirable to fasten the door of the. state room so that it cannot be opened from the outside and at the same time would be insured that some one from the outside cannot lock the door so' that it will be impossible for him to open it from the inside.

These and other objects will be accomplished and which is `vfully described in the specification and shown 'in the drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an exterior view of the door embodying my fastener which is shown latched upon the outside;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

The embodiment illustrated comprises a car door 10 of a Well known slidable type, here shown closed and striking a Z-shaped vertical member 11 which is secured to the partition 12.

A. bearing 13 is provided in the door 10 in which is journalled a `pin 14 to one end of which is secured a bar 15 having a hasp 16 pivotally securedthereto by means of a pin 17.

The opposite end of the pin 14 is squared at 14a and passes through a squared opening in a bar 18 to which is pivotally connected a second hasp 19 by means of a pin 20.

A staple or eye-bolt 21 is secured to the outer face of the Z-shaped bar 11 and is adapted to bel enclosed by the opening 19 in the hasp 19 so that the latter can be retained thereon by means of a pin 22, the latter being illustrated as having a slot 23 which is slidable over a pin 24 so that the pin 22 cannot easily be removed and lost.

A similar staple or eye-bolt 25 is secured upon the inner side of the partition 12 and preferably substantially at the same level as the staple 21. By this arrangement, with the arms 15 and 18 spaced at an angle about the pin 1.4L as shown in Fig. 1, only'one of the hasps can be brought into engagement with its staple at a time, the other being forcibly held in av position wherein it cannot be fastened on its staple.

Thus when the tender is within the State room he may close the door 10, which is illustrate-d as being slida-ble to the left to open, swing the bar 15 which is normally in a substantial depending position shown in Fig. 1 until it occupies the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2 and by swinging the hasp 16 over the staple 25 and dropping a pin into this staple prevents the withdrawal of the hasp 16 therefrom, thereby locking the door in closed position. At the same time it will be impossible for any one on the outside to swing the bar 18 and hasp 19 to the locking position so long as the door is locked on the inside by means of the hasp 16. This eifects a great measure of protection for the tender over the present methods of securing the door wherein it is possible for some one on the outside to fasten the door with the tender on the inside. This is of considerable importance as these cars are sometimes left for a matter of several hours and even days in transit or on sidings where the plight of the tender might not be discovered for a considerable period of time.

While I have shown and described certain embodiments of my invention, it is to be lunderstood that it is capable of many modifications. Changes therefore in the construction and arrangement may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as disclosed in the appended claims, in which it is my intention to claim all novelty inherent in my invention as broadly as possible in View of the prior art.

Iclaim:

1. In combination, a door, a pin journalled therein, a bar secured to each end of said pin, said bars being set at different angular positions with respect to the axis of said pin, staples secured to the jamb of the door, hasps carried by said barswhereby one or the other of said hasps may selectively engage a staple while the other hasp is held out of engagement with its staple, and means for securing said hasps on said staples.

2. In combination, a door, a pin journalled therein, a bar secured to each end of said pin, said bars being set at different angular llO' pin, staples secured to the jamb of the door, hasp's carried by said bars whereby one or the other of said hasps may selectively engage a staple While the other hasp is held out of engagement with its staple, and means rfor securing said hasps on said staples, one

of said bars being heavier than the other whereby said other bar is normally held in position for engaging its staple.

HARRY F. IHESEL 

